Laura Braza: Artistic Director
Laura is a freelance director, producer, literary manager, and teaching artist in addition to helming the Attic as Artistic Director. Directing credits for the Attic include Moonchildren, Dark Rapture, Wonderful World, This One Time In Last Chance, and this season’s upcoming Time of Your Life and The Tutors. She has also produced and directed numerous staged readings and workshops for the Attic. Recent directing credits include Women of Lockerbie (Stella Adler/NYU), The Dispute and If You Give a Pig a Pancake (Hangar Theater), The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds,Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and The Importance of Being Earnest (Pius XI Theater Lab), and work at Manhattan Theater Source, Dixon Place, and Atlantic Theater Company’s Stage II. Laura has assistant directed several critically acclaimed productions, including Love Child and a one-night revival of The Good Thief with Carl Forsman, as well as The Temperamentals and The Dining Room with Jonathan Silverstein. Drama League Directors Project Alumnus. Associate Member, SDC. BFA: NYU.
Ted Caine: Executive Director
Ted Caine is proud to produce and act in theater across the city. Ted has produced seven plays with The Attic as well as a number of readings and workshops. Some of his favorites to produce and act in have been The Argument, Dark Rapture, and Moonchildren. On the non-attic side, favorite acting credits inclus Alex Timbers' Dance Dance Revolution, Merton at the Movies, The Hollow, and Alice in Wonderland at The Dorset Theater Festival, Carnival Round the Central Figure directed by Karen Kohlhaas, the world premiere of Ayn Rand's Ideal at 59e59, and dancing in a David Byrne concert at Radio City Music Hall. Most recently, Ted performed in a Holiday Concert at Lincoln Center Library. tedcaine.com
Monica Hammond: Artistic Associate
Monica Hammond is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she studied at The Atlantic Theatre Company Acting School, Trinity College in Dublin and at the Stonestreet Institute for Film and Television. Monica also has training in improvisation and sketch comedy from the Uprights Citizens Brigade. Recent Attic credits include The Argument,Wonderful World, Dark Rapture, as well as various staged readings as part of the Emerging Playwrights Program. Other New York credits include work at The Public Theater, Columbia University, WOW, the Atlantic Second Stage, as well as Television appearances on MTV, ABC, NBC, the Biography Channel, and the Travel Channel. Monica has spent past summers as a member of the LAB Company at The Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, and at The Williamstown Theatre Festival. www.monicahammond.weebly.com
Sam Gooley: Resident Playwright
Sam is an actor/playwright with the Attic theatre company. He is an East Coast kid that graduated from East Carolina University in 2007. He has recently appeared in Bethesda (The Workshop Theatre), The Argument (The Attic), Wonderful World (The Attic) and Dream Wedding (Manhattan Rep). As a writer, his first play, This One Time In Last Chance premiered at the New York Fringe Festival in 2011 (directed by Laura Braza). He is currently working on his new play, “Steve Got Raped”.
Julia Noulin-Merat: Resident Scenic Designer/Production Coordinator
Julia is the principal designer at Noulin-Merat Studio, a NYC design firm that has designed over a 100 productions. Her theatre work includes Moonchildren, Dark Rapture, The Argument, Wonderful World with the Attic Theater; Penelope of Ithaca, November, Rocky Horror Show with The Hangar Theatre; Lesser Mercies, These Seven Sicknesses, King Lear, Arok of Java with Exit, Pursued by a Bear. Her opera work includes Madama Butterfly with El Paso Opera and Opera New Jersey; Cosi Fan Tutte, Lucia di Lammermoor with Commonwealth Opera; Say It Ain’t So Joe, Heart of a Dog, Loose Wet Perforated with Guerilla Opera; Xerxes with the Academy of Music; The Telephone, LRRH with Opera Boston and Carmen with Buck Hill Skytop Music Festival. Her television work includesGuiding Light (CBS) and Inside the Actors Studio: Jim Carrey (Bravo). She recently completed the Haunted Safari for the Bronx Zoo and the NYAquarium and theMagic School Bus 25th Anniversary for Scholastic’s. She is the resident set designer for The Attic Theatre and Exit, Pursued by a Bear and the Director of Design and Production for Guerilla Opera. www.noulinmerat.com
Ben Pilat: Resident Lighting Designer
Ben Pilat designed Dark Rapture, Moonchildren, and This One Time in Last Chance for The Attic Theater Company. Ben is the Lighting Supervisor and Resident Lighting Designer for the Los Angeles Ballet. Broadway assistant and associate design credits include Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo and Master Class. Recent projects include designs for Yale, Juilliard, Commonwealth Opera and the World Science Festival. As an assistant designer, Ben has worked at The Juilliard School, Opera Santa Barbara, The Kennedy Center, The Muny, and New York Theatre Workshop. Ben holds an MFA in lighting design from Boston University and is a member of United Scenic Artists.
www.benpilat.com
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Lexie Pregosin: Resident Casting Director
Lexie Pregosin is thrilled to be the resident casting director for Attic Theatre Company! She has worked in the casting offices of Jim Carnahan/Roundabout Theatre Company, Telsey + Company, New York Theater Workshop and Aisha Coley Casting, as well as several freelance projects of her own, and counting. She has worked on the casting for Broadway, Off-Broadway, film, and dozens of commercials. Directing credits include: There She Is (NYU Tisch Freeplay Festival), Golden (Reverie Productions), Israel Zangwill's The Melting Pot (Transport Group), Gone with the Masha (Brooklyn Playwrights Collective), Savage in Limbo (Manhattan Theatre Source), The Big Picture (FringeNYC 06). She assists directors, Lear DeBessonet (On the Levee), Jonathan Silverstein (The Temperamentals), Carl Forsman (Keen Company). Lexie was the SDC Observer for Les Waters on Sarah Ruhl's, In The Next Room or the vibrator play at Lincoln Center Theatre. She has also worked at Barlow Hartman Public Relations, Transport Group Theater Company, and the American Theatre Wing (Home of the TONY AWARDS®). B.A. in Theatre Studies (Directing) from Emerson College. Associate Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC).
Gene Tsenter: Photographer/Web Designer
Gene Tsenter is a freelance photographer, web designer, and carpenter. His photography has been shown in New York City, Philadelphia, and Ecuador, and published throughout the United States and Columbia. He produced several installments of a cooking web series, and has directed, written, and edited several short films (including "Gleaming the Flux Capacitor"). Recently, he has worked as a carpenter with Noulin-Merat Studios on several immersive experiences, including the Haunted Safari at the Bronx Zoo and NY Aquarium. BA in Film and Media Arts, Temple University. www.goatshow.tumblr.com
